What did they say about climate change?

As I am working with my group of 4th year of CSE about Climate Change and its impact on Earth, I decided to use Edpuzzle to create a flipped classroom activity so they could review the contents related to this topic. I found this video on YouTube, which explains very clearly and undertsandable the contentas I was looking for taking into account the level of my students. Moreover, it is a real material which has been created and published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the US, so it is not a material focus on the learning process of L2 students.

Additionally, I use Google Classroom with my students, so this video has been one of the activities that I posted on Classroom so that they could do it at home. The main objective of the video was to review the contents seen in class to assimilate them through a simple and visual video which includes some notes, multiple-choice and open questions that they had to answer. 

Once the students had done the activity at home, we talked about the video in class to check if they had understood it correctly. Regarding the positive points of using this tool, it has to be said that students really liked it because they could do it at home, which they found more comfortable and relaxing than doing it in class. They also highlighted that they did not feel the pressure of doing it in class, as well as they could listen and see the video as many times as they needed, so they found this really useful to understand completely the activity and to do it well. Apart from this, I found this tool really useful as I can check contents with them in a different way so we can focus on production activities in class regarding the video. Thus, one of the main points of this activity is that, as they were "experts" after watching the video, we could discuss in class about climate change and propose several actions to develop in order to face the current changes.

Nevertheless, we can always improve the activity and I think that the video was perfect for the activity, but next time I will include a video of myself explaining important facts that could be difficult to understand. This time, I chose a note on the video to do a summary of the Greenhouse Effect that had already been explained in the video, but maybe it could be useful for my students to see me explaining it with other pictures. 

To conclude, the activity has been a complete success and I will use it in a near future again. 

Climate Change: Edpuzzle Activity